On Extended Wings

Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems

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Helen Vendler

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Paperback / softback

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Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme-the worth of the imagination-remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description-which must be repetitive-of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens' work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems. She concludes, "Stevens was engaged in constant experimentation all his life in an attempt to find the appropriate vehicle for his expansive consciousness; he found it in his later long poems, which surpass in value the rest of his work."

Author Biography:

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

Release date Australia

January 1st, 1969

Author

Helen Vendler

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

312

Dimensions

140x210x25

ISBN-13

9780674634367

Product ID

15876657

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